Anthony Elliott is Director of the Hawke Research Institute, where he is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia. He is also currently Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Open University UK, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. From 2014 he will be Visiting Fellow at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, and in summer 2014 he will hold a Visiting Professorship at the Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Japan.

Professor Elliott is a prominent social theorist, sociologist and public intellectual. He is the author and editor of some 35 books, which have been translated or are forthcoming in a dozen languages. His books include Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition, Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction, Subject To Ourselves, The Mourning of John Lennon, Critical Visions, Social Theory Since Freud, The New Individualism (with Charles Lemert), Making The Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives, Mobile Lives (with John Urry), On Society (with Bryan S. Turner), Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction, and Reinvention. He is best known for Concepts of the Self, which has been in continuous print for over 20 years and across three editions.

Anthony Elliott was educated at the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge, where he was supervised by Lord Anthony Giddens, architect of the Blair Government’s Third Way.

Professor Elliott has held various professorships and fellowships in Australia and abroad. Following two consecutive ARC Research Fellowships at the University of Melbourne, he was appointed to a Research Chair in the UK in 1999. He subsequently became Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, prior to returning to Australia in 2006 to take up the Chair of Sociology at Flinders University, where he was for a period both Head of Department and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).

Elliott contributes to media worldwide: amongst others, he has been recently been interviewed by the BBC World Service, The Sunday Times, ABC Radio National, The Australian, BBC Radio 4, GMTV Sunday as well as European and North American radio and television networks.

Professor Elliott is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and a member of King’s College, Cambridge.

ARC Linkage Grant, 2012-13: 'Trust makers, breakers and brokers: building trust in the Australian food system', with researchers from Flinders University, Adelaide University; City University, London; University of Kent, UK; Department of Health (SA) and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand, $209,580.

'Psychoanalysis and social theory' in C. Crothers (ed.), UNESCO Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences: Historical Development and Theoretical Approaches in Sociology, New York: EOLSS, 2011, pp. 303-333.

'Editors introduction' in A. Elliott, M. Katagiri and A. Sawai (eds), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory: From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today, London and New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 1-13.

'On passionate dissent' in A. Elliott, M. Katagiri and A. Sawai (eds), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory: From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today, London and New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 63-67

'The three selves in Japanese society' in A. Elliott, M. Katagiri and A. Sawai (eds), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory: From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today, London and New York: Routledge, 2013.